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  2. Printed circuit board - Wikipedia

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    A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers, each with a pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto or between sheet layers of a non-conductive ...

  3. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    PC—Personal Computer; PCBPrinted Circuit Board; PCB—Process Control Block; PC DOS—Personal Computer Disc Operating System; PCI—Peripheral Component Interconnect; PCIe—PCI Express; PCI-X—PCI Extended; PCL—Printer Command Language; PCMCIA—Personal Computer Memory Card International Association; PCM—Pulse-Code Modulation

  4. Process control block - Wikipedia

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    A process control block (PCB), also sometimes called a process descriptor, is a data structure used by a computer operating system to store all the information about a process. When a process is created (initialized or installed), the operating system creates a corresponding process control block, which specifies and tracks the process state (i ...

  5. Printed circuit board manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Printed circuit board manufacturing is the process of manufacturing bare printed circuit boards (PCBs) and populating them with electronic components. It includes all the processes to produce the full assembly of a board into a functional circuit board. In board manufacturing, multiple PCBs are grouped on a single panel for efficient processing.

  6. Motherboard - Wikipedia

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    Dell Precision T3600 System Motherboard, used in professional CAD Workstations. Manufactured in 2012. A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, MB, mobo, base board, system board, or, in Apple computers, logic board) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems.

  7. Electronic design automation - Wikipedia

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    Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), [1] is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The tools work together in a design flow that chip designers use to design and analyze entire semiconductor chips.

  8. Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering - Wikipedia

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    A computer with its logical, arithmetic and control functions implemented on one or a few integrated circuits. microstrip A planar transmission line that is fabricated by printed circuit board technology and is used for microwave-frequency signals microstrip antenna A planar antenna that is fabricated by printed circuit board technology ...

  9. PCB - Wikipedia

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    PCB (software), software to design printed circuit boards PCBoard , bulletin board software for MS-DOS Process control block , an operating system data structure